I dont know, but i hope so. I know that for every mick jagger in the world, there are 10,000 musicians who are in the trenches and theyre all younger. Theyre all younger too. [laughter] and they depend on those royalties that theyre not getting. And, you know, lack of a performance royalty, ill just say this quickly, is kind of, its kind of a way of saying music should be free. If music should be free, im willing to have that discussion when musicians arent the only ones who arent being paid. And i really do want to hear from the broadcasters, too, because youve inherited your Business Model. You didnt create it. Your Companies Owners bought based on a value that we put in that when mr. Conyers and i try to change the law to a certain extempt, were taking away extent, were taking away value youve bought and paid for, and i want to be sensitive to everyone at the table has the red light has illuminated, so well hear from two witnesses, darrell. Whos most motivated to answer . Please. An
Recording artists and singer song writers who do value pandora because it is the only outlet, the only Distribution Platform available for them to find an audience that loves their music. Ms. Cash . That is what a lot of us are calling the exposure argument that we are seduced into thinking if we allow these performances without pay that we will get exposure therefore drive consumers to buy our records. That may or may not be true but the point still remains we dont have control over those copyrights and we are not paid fair compensation, we are not paid fair market rates. As i said before, theres no transparency about this. Its somewhat manipulative. And i feel that we end up subsidizing these multibillion dollar companies. They use our music as Something Like a loss leader to draw people in and then they make the money. And to confirm what mr. Williams said, the place that artists have the most control are sync licenses. Ive given my songs for free, my choice, to College Students mak
Sirius xm is well positioned to offer testimony on these copyright issues. In 2013, we paid approximately 325 million in royalties to Record Companies, publishers, song writers and artists. We have paid over 1. 8 billion in music royalties since we launched service 11 years ago. Id like you to take away four key themes from my testimony. First, parity. Radio is radio whether it is am, fm, satellite. All companies should pay for the music they use on the same ba s basis. Continuing to exempt the terrestrial Radio Companies that dominate radio listening with over 90 of the market and generate over 15 billion in revenue is bad policy. Copyright law does not distinguish between am and fm radio based on technology and it should not distinguish between am, mf, satellite, or Internet Radio based on technology. Second, todays copyright act creates an unfair digital disadvantage. Drawing any distinction based on the claim that some Radio Services are digital while others are not is based upon a
Come back with some of the most talented musicians in the world. Plus friday arts, my conversation with singer songwriter and author roseann cash. Nor uncertainty for the parents more uncertainty for the parents of those missing children of the capsized ferry. Divers entered the ship, so far theyve found no new survivors. There is information about the ships captain, arrested on criminal charges along with two crew members. More sad news, police say a High School Vice principal who was rescued from that ferry commitsuicide. We still dont know why it ran into trouble. It was going to an islandy ubaldislandisland jiju. Are. They have appeared to have gotten in the furthest we have heard so far, somewhere between the third and fourth levels of the vessel. They found three dead bodies through a window. They were not able to reach them. That is the furthest they were able to reach them. The credit count is up to 29, the weather is going to close in and making the effort a little more diffic
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis filmmaker ken burns has brought us so many of the experiences that define this nation from jazz to baseball to the fight for womens suffrage. His latest project which airs on pbs is called the address, following boys ages 1117, all of whom face a range of complex learning differences as they memorize and recite the gettysburg address. Here now a look at a scene from burns the address to go the address to go this is one of the most famous speeches of all times, from 200 or 300 years ago. It means a lot. Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. It always amazes me, the kind of courage that the boys have. Its very difficult when you are a kid to be different. This has to be the first piece youve ever done where the narration is done by a bunch of kids themselves. Were originally thought we would